Abstract

ROJAS MUNOZ, María Nielssen; NAVARRO NAVARRO, Tatiana  and  BRENES SALAS, Jossie Esteban. Promoting healthy living in a home older adults in Costa Rica. Rev. costarric. salud pública [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.1, pp.45-60. ISSN 1409-1429.

This article presents the results of the educational project called “Convivencia de Oro”, aimed at older adult residents of the Home of the Elderly in Curridabat, conducted between August and December 2014. It was considered the objective of strengthening healthy living through positive interpersonal relationships. A qualitative methodology was used, using the phenomenological method, two educational sessions and three living spaces for developing interaction of the twenty-seven seniors were performed. The pedagogical approach underlying the project design corresponded to the socio-reconstructionist choice made according to suitability, relevance and characteristics presented by the population group approach. Among the findings, the importance of intervention in these spaces that drove the development of the elderly, welfare and inclusion in society more actively stands. The project had an evaluative structure in three phases properly defined to achieve the proposed objectives and administrative feasibility, professional and human resource

Keywords : Elderly people; education; health; coexistence.

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